Dennis DeYoung Quotes

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

It's hard for new artists to keep hold of what they own.

If somebody makes a record, no matter how many years later it's released, they or their families should be entitled to the proceeds.

I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

As long as you have a percentage of a song, that lasts forever. You have to study the business. Don't just be in it for money. You have to understand what you're in it for, then get your money.

I don't want to have to talk to a lawyer if I want to jam with someone or if I want to sing on someone's album.

The purpose of VEVO is to continue the tradition of corporations preventing artists from making money on their art.

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.